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Loin of Braised Mutton

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 655 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Loin of Braised Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Braise the loin of mutton carefully.

  2. Strain and thicken the gravy from cooking.

  3. Serve the mutton with red currant jelly.

  4. Prepare mashed potatoes and brown them in the oven.

  5. Trim and cook French beans, then pour boiling cream over them.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Potato + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Red currant + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Red currant + beanstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, potato, beans, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, potato, beans, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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